1.02| WARNING: DON'T READ OUR PRETENTIOUS CRAP 1.0

Put this book down if you are not willing to be challenged.

Not challenged in some vague, intellectual way. Challenged in your field. The field where you actually know something. Where you have enough confidence to speak up and say: "this part is wrong, and here is why, and here is what works better."

If that is not you, this book is not for you.

Now, the honest part. This book could be a piece of crap. A castle in the sky built by someone with no academic credentials, no NGO insider knowledge, no community expertise, and no poverty specialization. The founder might be dragging a dead horse up a hill like Sisyphus.

Or it could be a brilliant foundation for a structural breakthrough in the battle against urban poverty. We put our money on the second but the moment we find out there is a truly better alternative, we RIP IkoCiti in a heartbeat. There are enough mediocre solutions out there; no need for another.

IkoCiti is designed around the HOW. How to build it. How to operate it. How to make it better. And making it better is where you come in.

Here is the fun part — and it is fun, if you are wired that way.

The challenge is not to find reasons why IkoCiti will not/never work. There are 237 ways to fail for IkoCiti. Pinpointing potential failures as an initial exercise is boring. The fun challenge is to find the solutions. But finding a better solution for one component is useful but not enough in a highly connected system. Any smart person can do that. The real challenge is to determine whether your better component fits the system. Whether it makes the whole machine faster, safer, and stronger — or whether it breaks something else.

Think F1. It is never about speed alone. It is speed in connection with tire management, safety, competitors, weather. One brilliant upgrade that ignores the system is just an expensive mistake.

IkoCiti is that car. If you like the challenge, keep on reading.